Tag Archive for Eli Yishai

| March 25, 2013
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New Interior Minster Sa’ar to consider extending Daylight Savings Time

Public uproar caused legislatures to expended Daylight Savings Time to 193 days. Because some say it is not enough, new Interior Minister Sa’ar says he will examine the issue.

By Omri Efraim

 

On Monday Israel welcomes the spring, and will transition into Daylights Savings Time (DST) during the weekend it, pushing the clocks one hour forward.

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This year, in the wake of new legislation, Daylight Savings Time will stay in effect longer than usual and end on October 6, three weeks after its original ending – Yom Kippur – which falls on September 13, and two weeks later than it did last year – September 23. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2013
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Haredi politicians lash out at Bennett for being pushed out of coalition

 

“The boycotting of an entire population is despicable and revolting behavior, and is a mark of shame on the Habayit Hayehudi leadership,” Deputy Health Minister MK Yakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) said.

By Yehuda Shlezinger

 

 

As coalition negotiations head into their final stretch, and with the ultra-Orthodox parties seemingly out of the government for the first time since 2005, haredi politicians have increased their vitriol and attacks against those they see as responsible for their political demise: Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid and Habayit Hayedyhudi’s Naftali Bennett.

Eli YishaiA leading figure in the Ashkenazi haredi political world, the grand rabbi of the Slonim Hasidic movement, said on Saturday, “The Evil Spirit has taken over Bennett.”

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| March 6, 2013
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Sometimes necessary to ignore UN’s position on illegal African migrants

The Sofer Committee, established by Interior Minister Eli Yishai, says Israeli laws prohibiting the hiring of illegal African migrants should be enforced & recommends economic incentives, that could be offered to facilitate their return to their countries of origin or even go to a 3rd country.

By Yori Yalon & Israel Hayom Staff

 

The Sofer Committee, which was established by Interior Minister Eli Yishai on the issue of African migrants illegally living in Israel, presented its recommendations at a press conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The committee said Israel should monitor the situations in the home countries of the migrants and not always abide by the United Nations’ positions on economic migrants and asylum seekers.

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| February 4, 2013
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Shas approached Bennett’s rabbis to circumvent partnership with Yair Lapid

 

Shas Co-chairman Eli Yishai says he doesn’t need portfolios or benefits, only no decisions “having to do with the Torah world” are made that we can’t live with.

Lapid: “It is very possible that I will be the opposition leader. If that happens, we will make sure to topple the coalition within a year and a half,”

Mati Tuchfeld

 

 

Co-chairman of the ultra-Orthodox party Shas, Eli Yishai, confirmed reports on Monday that he had asked certain rabbis to pressure Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett not to cooperate with Yesh Atid (There is a future) Chairman  Lapid on the issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) enlistment to the military.

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